A New Year's night murder
Pakistan Press Foundation
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It was a little past midnight on Jan 1, 2014. In the town of Badah, Larkana district, journalist Shan Dahar was standing outside a small medical store located in a narrow lane. He had been working on an investigative story about free medicines supplied by an NGO for poor patients being illegally sold to local pharmacies. Suddenly a gunshot rang out. "Shan was leaning across the counter talking to me when he let out a cry and collapsed on the ground," recalls the shopkeeper, Zulfikar Khokar. A bullet had struck him in his upper back.